Matzath Shimurim [Kabbalistic treatises on the commandments of Mezuzah, Tzitzith, and Tefillin]

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 204

SHAPIRO, NATHAN

Matzath Shimurim [Kabbalistic treatises on the commandments of Mezuzah, Tzitzith, and Tefillin]

FIRST EDITION. Title within textual and typographic frames. Numerous kabbalistic charts ff. 8, (4), 9-12, 21-84 (i.e. 80 leaves). Top of title frayed with some loss of typographic border. Damp-wrinkled. Modern calf-backed boards. 8vo Vinograd, Venice 1346 (mispaginated)

Venice: Antonio Rezzini 1660

Est: $300 - $400

PRICE REALIZED $200

Nathan Shapiro ha-Yerusahlami (the Jerusalemite) is considered one of the “gurei ha-Ari” (“lion whelps”), the repositors of the kabbalistic tradition of the Ar”i, R. Isaac Luria, although in this case the chain of transmission is buried in obscurity. This volume, together with Tuv ha-Aretz (“The Goodness of the Land”) and Ma'amar Yayin ha-Meshumar (Treatise of the Guarded Wine), form a trilogy of kabbalistic exposition of various commandments. See Ya'ari, Shluchei Eretz Israel (1977), p. 280